FirefFly
In the Brooder
- Oct 3, 2019
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My husband and I have always wanted chickens ever since we got married and bought our new house. We purchased a chicken coop and fixed it up making sure that it is predator safe. We got six Plymouth rock hands as chicks and hand raised them until they were big enough to go into the coop. They are now six months old and very happy laying eggs almost daily. We don’t have any roosters thank goodness. We are new to the whole chicken world and have many questions.
My husband is home every night. I travel three days a week usually away from home. So we were thinking that it would be no problem to have chickens. Now that they’re laying eggs he collects them every morning before he goes to work.
After reading some posts after googling questions we had I found the articles here are the best that’s why I joined BYC.
Here is our first big question;
We recently purchased a bantam chicken who just started laying eggs so she’s approximately five months old. She laid an egg her first morning with us. We did have her with the rest of the girls in the coop we introduced her at night. Everything seemed to go very well until we let them free range together and two of our chickens beat her up. So I created a separate area in the run where they can see each other but not attack each other. It’s only been about a week that we’ve had her and the last five days being separated. It seems like two of our chickens just want to kill her. I did read that I should just let them have it out but I’m afraid because they are so big and she’s so small that they really will kill her. Any advice would be great. Maybe I should just let my husband let them duke it out....
Thanks and buwack
My husband is home every night. I travel three days a week usually away from home. So we were thinking that it would be no problem to have chickens. Now that they’re laying eggs he collects them every morning before he goes to work.
After reading some posts after googling questions we had I found the articles here are the best that’s why I joined BYC.
Here is our first big question;
We recently purchased a bantam chicken who just started laying eggs so she’s approximately five months old. She laid an egg her first morning with us. We did have her with the rest of the girls in the coop we introduced her at night. Everything seemed to go very well until we let them free range together and two of our chickens beat her up. So I created a separate area in the run where they can see each other but not attack each other. It’s only been about a week that we’ve had her and the last five days being separated. It seems like two of our chickens just want to kill her. I did read that I should just let them have it out but I’m afraid because they are so big and she’s so small that they really will kill her. Any advice would be great. Maybe I should just let my husband let them duke it out....
Thanks and buwack